Improved shaft-beaker



WILLIAM PLATT, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

Letters Patent No. 82,549, elated September 29, 1868.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Be it known that I, WILLIAM PLATT, of the city of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented a-new and useful Improvement in Shaft-Bearers; and I do hereby declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which aremad'e a part of this specifica.- tion, and in Whieh-- Figure 1 is a general view of the device in the ordinary working position.

Figure 2 is a view of the shaft-bearing hook, divested of the straps which accompany it when in use.

The hook isbuckled to the billet-strap from the saddle, and receives the shaft, after which a stra'p is lapped over it and passed down inside the shaft to the belly-band. The shaft is :eadily dropped into 'the hook,

without passing it in endivaysfs usual in the common billet-loop, and the subsequent lap of the strap holds itin position.

In the drawings- The metallic hook, A, has three openings. At the upper end it forms the frame of a buckle, and has a tooth, B, to secure the billet-strap C, which depends from the saddle. The middle opening d is for receiving the end of the strap D, after it is lapped over the shaft and huckledvto the belly-band E. -The opening e is for the attachment ofthe strap D.- V

The bucklef, at the upper part of the belly-hand E, is for the point-strap proceeding" from the pad, and by which the saddle is girthed to the horse.Y

The hook ofthe shaft-bearer is clothed'with leather, to preserve the shaft from wear.

In bitching the horse in the shafts, the strap D, on each side of the animal, is yet unbucltled from the bellyband, and laid over outwardly, so that the shafts can be dropped into the hooks ofthe bearersinstead of cntering them endivays, -which requires that the hostler shall go to cach side of the horse -before the shaft can be run into the loop suiciently far to enable the tugsto be hitched. The present improvement renders unnecessary this trouble.

The straps D are passed over the respective shafts, and buckled to the belly-band, as shown in g. 1.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new,'and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The shaft-bearer A, provided with a means of attachment to the billet-strap, a hook for receiving the shaft, and a loop for the attachment ofthe securing-strap D, substantially as described and represented.

To the above specification of my invention, I have signed my hand, this 18th day of August, A. D. 1868.

vWILLIAM PLATT.

Witnesses:

OCTAVIUS KIG'HT, i WM. EQBIIEREIOIL 

